ePub Dancing Through It: My Journey in the Ballet by Jenifer Ringer in Arts-Photography

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Now a Netflix original documentary series; also written by Mark Harris; premiering on March 31;2017: the extraordinary wartime experience of five of Hollywoods most important directors; all of whom put their stamp on World War II and were changed by it forever Here is the remarkable; untold story of how five major Hollywood directorsmdash;John Ford; George Stevens; John Huston; William Wyler; and Frank Capramdash;changed World War II; and how; in turn; the war changed them. In a move unheard of at the time; the U.S. government farmed out its war propaganda effort to Hollywood; allowing these directors the freedom to film in combat zones as never before. They were on the scene at almost every major moment of Americarsquo;s war; shaping the publicrsquo;s collective consciousness of what wersquo;ve now come to call the good fight. The product of five years of scrupulous archival research; Five Came Back provides a revelatory new understanding of Hollywoodrsquo;s role in the war through the life and work of these five men who chose to go; and who came back.ldquo;Five Came Back . . . is one of the great works of film history of the decade.rdquo; --Slateldquo;A tough-minded; information-packed and irresistibly readable work of movie-minded cultural criticism. Like the best World War II films; it highlights marquee names in a familiar plot to explore some serious issues: the human cost of military service; the hypnotic power of cinema and the tension between artistic integrity and the exigencies of war.rdquo; --The New York Times